The Power of Hope diorama

Paper dioramas tell the stories of magical characters from the Ové iconography through brightly coloured papers with the help of clever use of technology. The motifs invite viewers to search for universal stories, life records of human experience. These snapshots and fragments of situations show the authors' philosophical view of the world and encourage reflection. Dioramas make it possible to create scenes composed of different narratives compressed into a spatial object with a specific artistic expression. They are a well-known method of illusory staging of space and story, nowadays considered a bizarre, outdated technology. The creation of such an art object is always preceded by an innovative process in which the authors work with their own texts, create pictorial storyboards, select and create characters and define environments.